Pleasanton, Calif.
Applied Biosystems Group, based in Foster City, Calif., plans to develop a 960,000-sf Pleasanton campus over the next eight years that will eventually house as many as 2,600 employees. Applied Biosystems will initially occupy about 100,000 sf of the 300,000 sf of office, lab, and warehouse space that currently exists at the 80-acre site. In 2001, the company plans to build between 250,000 and 300,000 sf of office, lab, light manufacturing, and warehouse space. The company is working to decode the human genome.